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Greek grammar skewed by Alexandrian corruptions
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This has come up on CARM, current thread below. Needs better long-term documentation because CARM threads poof after a year or three.

Daniel Wallace has some doozies in grammar confusion. Let's start with Mark 9:25-26 (although there is another ultra-doozy directly on the table as well, that relates to the heavenly witnesses.)

Mark 9:25-26
When Jesus saw that the people came running together,
he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him,
Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him:
and he was as one dead;
insomuch that many said, He is dead.

In the mass of Greek mss behind the TR there is no difficulty here. Pneuma for the spirit is neuter and the grammar is neuter.

Wallace is talking of constructio ad sensum, and uses the Alexandrian corruption here (masculine participles) as the base for a truly absurd claim:

Daniel Wallace
There are even one or two indisputable texts that refer to an evil spirit with the masculine gender. For example, in Mark 9:26 the masculine participles κράξας and σπαράξας refer back to the πνεῦμα of v. 25.5.

This nonsense (using ultra-minority Alexandrian variant/corruptions as "two indisputable texts" ) is in Greek Grammar and the Personality of the Holy Spirit

What is behind this is that the ultra-corrupt Alexandrian mss have the grammar as masculine, the participles cried and rent - κράξας and σπαράξας. And Wallace builds analysis and conceptual and technical errors on the blunders of those Alexandrian scribes behind Vaticanus and a smidgen more... whose texts give us literally thousands of corruptions.

Note: Even if a person was so confused or duped that they thought that the probability of the original text favors the ultra-minority corruption, (ie. they are a slave to hortian Vaticanus-primacy) ... they would have to be a logical idiot to refer to their mild probability

Here is a simple question for Barry, on a verse that actually has real grammatical connections with the heavenly witnesses verse.

Mark 9:25-26 (AV)
When Jesus saw that the people came running together,
he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee,
come out of him, and enter no more into him.

And the spirit cried, and rent him sore,
and came out of him: and he was as one dead;
insomuch that many said, He is dead.